Study of psychiatric disturbance in infertile women

The experience of infertility can be extremely stressful and associated with a rangeof psychiatric problems in infertile women. generally; some of the risk factors which may lead topsychiatric problem are repeated unsuccessful treatment of infertility, low socioeconomic status,lackof partner support, being female, life events, etc.objective: in this study, we have analyzed the psychiatric problems of infertile women by meansof primary health questionnaire (phq).materials and methods: in a cross sectional study 100 infertile women were selected and advisedto fill up phq. after obtaining their consents psychiatric problems such as somatoform, panic,other anxiety disorder major depressive and other depressive disorders, were assessed, and theirresults wereanalyzed and compared with these results from 98 fertile women.results: according to phq results major depression and anxiety disorders weresignificantly morefrequent in infertile women, but considering somatoform and panic disorder there was nosignificant difference between infertile andfertile women.conclusions: infertility may be considered as one of the major casual factor in major depressiveand anxiety disorders in association with other social problems.